Interview with Patient 2
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Diagnosis of lung cancer
DR LOVE: The next patient I met with found that adjuvant chemotherapy was less troublesome than she expected.
PATIENT 2: I live alone and my primary interests are my grandchildren and I read anything I can get my hands on.
DR LOVE: And what type of work have you done in the past?
PATIENT 2: I worked in the banking industry for 35 years.
DR LOVE: Have you ever faced a serious health problem in the past?
PATIENT 2: Nothing as serious as my condition now.
DR LOVE: What was your reaction when you first found out that you might have cancer in your lung?
PATIENT 2: I don’t know. I can’t say I was expecting it because there was never any indication that it might be there, but I’m the type of person I just take everything with a grain of salt. And with the testing that they did, I became – before it was actually diagnosed for sure – I had already made myself believe “Yeah, that’s what it’s going to be.” Because as I say, I read a lot and I’ve always been interested in medicine and for some of the testing that they were doing, that’s what gave me an inkling that there may be cancer in the picture.
